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  Welcome to volume thirty of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we make the web beautiful, beat the drum of decentralization, and find a whole slew of cybergems.

  So get scrollin’. It’s good for ya!

  

  IndieWeb

  The web can be beautiful and fun, if we make it so. The future of the Internet is not fated, and you don’t need permission to inject a little good, a little humanity, into the world (wide web)—to shape it for better. Because the web evolves not on its own, but through the countless decisions we all collectively make. The consequence of not trying, could be the loss of what we hold dear.

  So start a blog! Use it to express yourself. Shout into the void—the void may be more conversational than you think. Show us your books. Make a button, and share it with friends. Write about your hobbies. Get Jekyll-ey (or 11ty-ey)—it’s a great way to blog! There’s no wrong answers here. It’s a blast to work on your site, and equally fun to explore other people’s li’l digital gardens. 🌱

  Small Web Finds and Features

  Every site on the IndieWeb is unique, that’s what makes it great! Here’s some cool sites I’ve found recently…

  

  • Aarón’s site aaron.com.es has a cool aesthetic. Go check it out!
  • Florian’s site flo-bit features a really cool earth-in-space visualization.
  • The Good Internet magazine is absolutely loaded with gems. I suggest reading Falling in love with the internet (again) and 18 lessons from 18 years of blogging to start.

  Fediverse

  Ya know what we love to gripe about on the Fediverse? Other social media networks. One of the all-time favorite punching bags seems to be Bluesky. One thing you need to know about Fedi (or atleast a subset of relatively vocal individuals on Fedi) is that you ain’t nothin’ if you ain’t federated. Centralized social platforms are the enemy (mind the alternatives!), and you best beware of faux-decentralization as well. And since we’re on the subject of Bsky, understand that ATproto, despite it’s many flaws, is not completely meritless. I, and many others have applauded it’s approach to handling identity, and it’d be awesome to see the Fediverse solve for this issue as well.

  But enough about things we don’t like. Let’s talk about what we do like! For me, that continues to be the impressive innovation and sense of community the Fediverse brings. Lately I’ve been following the WebIntents, Holos and Fediway projects.

  Cybersecurity

  Some great reading coming out of the infosec community recently… 📖

  • The Byte Architect has been publishing an interesting series of posts related to hardening macOS.
    • Part 1: Series Introduction
    • Part 2: Network Layer
    • Part 3: Browser Compartmentalization
    • Part 4: Secrets Management & Hardware Security Keys
      
      

  • There’s no disputing the fact that AI has proven somewhat disruptive in the infosec field, taking what had already become a somewhat saturated market and making it that much worse (and in more ways than one). But for those of us who persist, and for all other prospective cyber-careerists, you may find this piece on AI-proofing your IT/Cyber career useful.

  • Jed makes a great case for why the infosec field needs to embrace containment as a non-negotiable security layer—the same way SREs did in the ITops world. “Limiting blast radius” is certainly not an alien topic to us in Security these days either. It’s high time we adopt this mindset across the board with respect to defense-in-depth.

  • Speaking of AI and limiting blast radius… 🦞

  • Let’s talk vulnerability disclosure—we love to talk about vulnerability disclosure!

  • Oh yeah, Paged Out! #8 has the meaty infosec stuff for ya.

  • Someone asked on infosec.pub about how the infosec job market is. Here’s what I said.

  Thanks for reading Scrolls. Stay warm out there!

  

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